According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

An impressive waterfall nestled in the cliffs of Idaho's Snake River Canyon.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.